Now is the time for us as a Tech Comms community to put our money where our mouths are and rustle up some serious funding for this organization. Even if you can't donate personally, I'm sure that you could use your skills of persuasion to convince your organization to commit to supporting such a vital Tech Comms standard.

I'm going to do whatever I can to get things moving in the right direction. Up towards the funding goal.

Open and forkable, just like it should be. Don't know whether I should pick a license for it or not. If you think I should, suggest a good one in the comments.

It was a great night giving some background on AsciiDoc, and demonstrating some great examples of Asciidoctor projects. Technology like AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor promotes action. Some folks have gone off and created their own fork of +Anthonny Querouil 's http://hubpress.io project to get blogging and practicing AsciiDoc.

I was asked to create a list of prior innovations in Asciidoctor for a contract I'm doing. I'm blown away by the size of the list...and I'm still missing stuff! We've built quite an open source documentation kingdom!

Asciidoctor Diagram (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-diagram, License: MIT)::A set of extensions for Asciidoctor that allow you to embed diagrams written using, but not limited to, the PlantUML, Graphviz, ditaa or Shaape syntax inside your AsciiDoc documents.The extension runs the composite diagram processor to generate an SVG, PNG, or TXT file from the input text.The generated file is then inserted into your converted document.

Asciidoctor.js (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor.js, License: MIT)::A version of Asciidoctor core which has been transpiled to JavaScript using Opal.Allows Asciidoctor to be used in any JavaScript environment, including, but not limited to, a browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera), a text editor based on web technologies (Atom, Brackets), Node.js (via the npm module), and a JVM (via Rhino or Nashorn).Asciidoctor.js also provides a command line interface that mimics the one in Asciidoctor core.

AsciidoctorJ (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctorj, License: Apache)::AsciidoctorJ is a library for running Asciidoctor on the JVM.AsciidoctorJ allows you can convert AsciiDoc content or analyze the structure of a parsed AsciiDoc document from Java and other JVM languages.AsciidoctorJ provides bindings to the Asciidoctor API from Java.AsciidoctorJ also bundles and distributes additional components, including, but not limited to, Asciidoctor PDF, Asciidoctor EPUB3 and a command line interface that mimics the one in Asciidoctor core.

Asciidoctor Gradle plugin (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-gradle-plugin, License: Apache)::A plugin for Gradle that configures and runs the Asciidoctor processor as part of your Gradle build using the AsciidoctorJ integration library.Exposes the AsciidoctorJ Groovy DSL as a top-level construct to allow Asciidoctor extensions to be written in the Gradle build.

Asciidoctor PDF (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf, License: MIT)::A native PDF renderer for AsciiDoc that is built using Asciidoctor and Prawn.Converts AsciiDoc content directly to a PDF structure and writes the result to a file or stream.Provides a collection of themes and associated theme assets (images, fonts, etc).

Asciidoctor EPUB3 (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-epub3, License: MIT)::An EPUB3 converter for AsciiDoc that is built using Asciidoctor and gepub.Converts AsciiDoc content directly to an EPUB3 layout and writes the result to a file or stream.Provides a collection of themes and associated theme assets (images, fonts, etc).

Asciidoctor Chrome Extension (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-chrome-extension, License: MIT)::An extension for Google Chrome (& Chromium) that converts AsciiDoc files to HTML directly in the browser using Asciidoctor.js.Allows the Asciidoctor processor to be configured using an option page or by passing attributes through the query string of the URL.

Asciidoctor Firefox Add-on (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-firefox-addon, License: MIT)::An add-on for Mozilla Firefox that converts AsciiDoc files to HTML directly in the browser using Asciidoctor.js.Allows the Asciidoctor processor to be configured using an option page or by passing attributes through the query string of the URL.

Asciidoctor reveal.js, deck.js & dzslides (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-backends, Licence: MIT)::A collection of templates for use with the Asciidoctor template converter that convert AsciiDoc to a reveal.js, deck.js or dzslides presentation.

John Graber: Truth! +Asciidoctor & +GitHub, two great tastes that taste great together.

But seriously, folks, this is Nirvana when it comes to technical writing. I use this tool chain for all kinds of reports now. And the recipients are never anything but impressed at the appearance, even when the content falls short ;)

Special thanks to community member Brian Carlson who has been raising awareness about Asciidoctor on the git mailing list & championing support for it. Additional thanks to all Asciidoctor community members and authors. Write on!

Some people use AsciiDoctor, instead of AsciiDoc, to format our documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted to be usable by both, as AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc about its input mark-up.